The RoutledgeFalmer reader in language and literacy / edited by Teresa Grainger.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : travelling across the terrain / Teresa Grainger -- The history and future of literacy / Peter Hannon -- Living literacies in homes and communities / Eve Gregory and Ann Williams -- Globalisation, literacy, curriculum practice / Allan Luke and Victoria Carrington --'You made it like a crocodile' : a theory of children's meaning-making / Gunther Kress -- Where are the childhoods in childhood literacy? : an exploration in outer (school) space / Anne Haas Dyson -- Learning as puzzle solving / Peter Geekie, Brian Cambourne, and Phil Fitzsimmons -- Development through dialogue / Neil Mercer -- Group work : learning through talk / Roy Corden -- Discourse, conversation, and creativity / Ron Carter -- Drama, literacies, and difference / Helen Nicholson -- Seeing, thinking, and knowing / Evelyn Arizpe and Morag Styles -- A word about pictures / David Lewis -- Television and film / Jackie Marsh and Elaine Millard -- Playing the text / Margaret Mackey -- Reading rights and responsibilities / Eve Bearne and Gabrielle Cliff Hodges -- The reader in the writer / Myra Barrs -- What does research tell us about how we should be developing written composition? / Mary Bailey -- Can teachers empower pupils as writers? / Carole King -- Postscript : the journey continues / Teresa Grainger.